11:58 PM,
Nov. 17, 2012

FAMU head football coach Rudy Hubbard points skyward after his Rattlers won the National Championship.

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The FAMU football team that coach Rudy Hubbard led to victory in the inaugural NCAA Division I-AA championship in 1978 was a hungry squad that refused to get too high, despite its success.

"We had been to the mountaintop before," said Albert Chester, quarterback for the Rattlers during that championship season. "We were never satisfied with our play because we knew everybody was going to bring their A game when we played, so every game we treated like a championship game."

The Rattlers had plenty of reason to boast if they wanted to. The year prior to their national title win, they were the only ...